Field Day

Carter pulling with all his might during the tug-of-war.

Carter loved Field Day!

Mt. Rushmore

One of the many buffalo we saw on our trip.

Chris and I inside Wind Cave.

Claire and Carter inside Wind Cave. Lots of cool rock formations, plus a lot of box work, which looks like spiderwebs.

Crash, Chase, and Claire in Wind Cave. A highlight of the trip for Chase. We saw the natural opening for the cave in the rock, which was the size of a basketball.

The little bear cubs at Bear Country wrestling with eachother.

Bear Country in Rapid City. This bear was right outside our car on "patrol"

Crash's favorite part of Bear Country, the big brown bear bottoms.

This bear was enjoying his view from the tree.

Who do we look like? Maybe a little like the president's on Mt. Rushmore?

What a beautiful family I have.

We made it to Mt. Rushmore, despite all of the rain.

On our drive to Mt. Rushmore we stopped in Guernsy, WY to see the wagon ruts. The Oregon Trail went through here along with the Mormon pioneers. Chris and the kids are standing in the middle of the ruts.

Chase at Ponderosa High School for the 6th grade Hexathlon. He was one of the top 9 boys from his school that was able to go compete in the district wide Hexathlon. Awesome job Chase!!!

Carter's 6th Birthday!! I can't believe he is already 6 that means I'm getting old.

Carter and I went on a field trip to the Butterfly Pavilion on his birthday with his Kindergarten class.
Watery eyes from the smoke from the candle. Carter has the most sensitive eyes.

Claire at her Spring Choir Concert. Way to go Claire!

What were we thinking? We forgot to take pictures of the kids last Sunday in their Easter clothes, so here they are a week late. Hopefully we do better next year.

Happy Easter! Carter are you even awake?

Easter morning Claire checking out her Easter basket

Halloween

My scary little Halloween monsters. Chase was a mad scientist, Claire was a suburban which and Crash was my little ghost. As you can see from the pictures of Crash as a ghost at pre-school, he is literally head and shoulders above the rest.

Football For Life

These is Chase's team, the Parker Hawks. They were a new team this year and they went 6-2 and ended up in the playoffs, were they lost to the top team. Chase was magnificent as a right tackle on offense and superb as a cornerback on defense. The picture of the boys as they approach the line Chase is #1, in the picture of the boys on the line, Chase is 3rd blue helmet in from the left (elbows on knees). It was a real pleasure to see the boys work hard and see thier work pay off.

Pictures of the new house, part II

These are the inside of the house. Christa has definetly put her touch on it. The pictures are of the main floor. There used to be purple in a lot of places, but Christa had it painted over and then added a little of her personality (Classy) into the mix. We are working on the upstairs and we'll have pictures once we have it painted.

This is the view when you walk in the front door.











This is looking back at the front door from the dining room.













This is the view when you walk in the garage door.















This is looking from the kitchen back to the garage door.













This is the kitchen which you can see when you walk in the garage door.

Pictures of the new house Part 1

These are the outside of the new house. The back yard isn't huge, but it's alot bigger than a lot of yards here in Colorado. The back yard has the big stamped concrete pad and the side of the house has the concrete walkway.

Claires Baptism ( she was beautiful)!!!

Birthday's come and go. Thank heaven they keep comming!